Comments Thread For: Hearn: Paul-KSI is One-Off, Not Looking Into Celebrity Matches

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Boxing is a business, and there's perhaps no one better at realizing this of late better than Matchroom head Eddie Hearn, a trailblazer of sorts in the sport based on the series of moves he's been able to pull off recently. Some of the feathers in his cap include: the eight year, $1 billion deal he struck with DAZN and the subsequent stars he signed to promotional pacts, scoring a hefty site fee north of $40 million for the Andy Ruiz-Antony Joshua rematch to take place in Saudi Arabia and being first-to-market with a mega fight in the middle east, and tapping into promoting the
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[Oldskoolg]

In other words Canelo could care less about this mess....good for Canelo for not playing the dancing monkey role

[Combat Talk Radio]

Lies. Does big numbers, next you'll see two rappers who are normally beefing getting showcased on DAZN with an unretiring Broner on the undercard.

[NachoMan]

I watched a replay of the first fight the other day on DAZN - out of pure curiosity. It honestly wasn't half as bad as I was expecting, given that these guys are rank amateurs. Based on what I saw from the first fight, if Logan Paul shows up with better stamina, the rematch will probably be a KO blowout. KSI was talked about as the Youtube champ because he had fought once or twice before, but his skills (primarily his punch technique) were pretty bad. Paul, on the other hand, showed respectable technique (before he got tired), decent command of the range and the ability to take a punch. He's naturally much bigger and heavier-handed than KSI, so if these guys do fight without headgear and use 10oz gloves, I really see this fight ending early.

[sayf]

Nobody else seems to be thinking that this could actually be a bad thing for boxing of one of them gets badly injured. Can you imagine the pressure of one of these YouTube darlings gets a brain injury or worse dies?
I know that's an extreme case, but it's within the realms of possibility. Wroth all the recent deaths and injuries boxing will get a really bad press.
I'm not saying boxing will die as a result, but it still definitely suffer an image problem for a long time with the current generation.

[andocom]

Nobody else seems to be thinking that this could actually be a bad thing for boxing of one of them gets badly injured. Can you imagine the pressure of one of these YouTube darlings gets a brain injury or worse dies?
I know that's an extreme case, but it's within the realms of possibility. Wroth all the recent deaths and injuries boxing will get a really bad press.
I'm not saying boxing will die as a result, but it still definitely suffer an image problem for a long time with the current generation.

IMO the chance of someone getting killed is much lower than the already low chance, as these guys obviously won't be punching with the same force as real pros and they also won't be able to take the same punishment and keep standing as pros. Not a 0% chance but not far off.

TBF the amount of hate Hearn gets on here seems pretty irrational, I really haven't heard his fighters past or present have much bad to say about him, pretty much the opposite.

[Rhonda Drowsy]

Hearn would promote dwarf Grandma boxing if it made ¢'s